Utah · Landscape Architect seal requirements
Utah Landscape Architect seal requirements: proper sizing, signing and sealing of documents
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Utah licenses landscape architects under the Landscape Architects Licensing Act, and Utah Code § 58-53-601 delegates the seal's design to rule. R156-53-601 makes it a circular seal of 1.5 inches minimum diameter carrying the licensee's name, the license number, "State of Utah" and "Licensed Landscape Architect". The signature and date must appear across the face of each seal imprint, and the seal may be a wet stamp, embossed, or electronically produced.
R156-22-601 states a minimum diameter and nothing else; the "maximum 2 inches" figure circulated for Utah is in no part of the rule. The agency is now the Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL); the older name Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing survives only in the legacy heading of the R156 code title. The 2024 amendment to Utah Code § 58-53-102 (Chapter 507, 2024 General Session, effective October 1, 2024) defines "Board" as the Architects and Landscape Architects Licensing Board created in § 58-3a-201, so the landscape architects' board is now combined with the architects' board. R156-53 itself is still published under the Division's former name, Occupational and Professional Licensing; the agency is now the Division of Professional Licensing. The Office of Administrative Rules gives R156-53 a Date of Last Change of August 21, 2014 and a Notice of Continuation of November 10, 2022.
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Utah Landscape Architect seal
- Seal requirements
- Utah Code §§ 58-53-601 to 58-53-603; Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601
- Legend
- “State of Utah, Licensed Landscape Architect”
- Diameter
- Each seal shall be a circular seal, 1 1/2 inches minimum diameter. No maximum diameter is stated.
- Expiration date
- R156-53-601(2) lists the seal's contents exhaustively — name, license number, "State of Utah" and "Licensed Landscape Architect" — and no expiration or renewal date appears among them.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(2))
- Signature date
- The signature and the date must appear across the face of each seal imprint, and the original seal, signature and date must appear at minimum on the cover or title sheet of each original set of final site plans.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(3), (4))
- City on seal
- The rule's list of required seal contents includes no city, address or place of business.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(2))
- "Every landscape architect shall have a seal, the design and implementation of which shall be established by rule by the division in collaboration with the board."(Utah Code § 58-53-601)
- All final site plans prepared by the licensee or under the licensee's supervision or direction shall be sealed in accordance with R156-53-601.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601)
- "Each seal shall be a circular seal, 1 1/2 inches minimum diameter."(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(1))
- "Each seal shall include the licensee's name, license number, 'State of Utah', and 'Licensed Landscape Architect'."(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(2))
- "Each seal shall be signed and dated with the signature and date appearing across the face of each seal imprint."(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(3))
- Each original set of final site plans shall, as a minimum, have the original seal imprint, original signature and date placed on the cover or title sheet.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(4))
- "A seal may be a wet stamp, embossed, or electronically produced."(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(5))
- Copies of the original set of site plans containing the original seal, signature and date are permitted if the seal, signature and date are clearly recognizable.(Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(6))
- Any site plan prepared in this state shall bear the seal of a licensed landscape architect, subject to the exemptions in § 58-53-304 and to the engineering, architecture and construction-code statutes; any final site plan prepared by or under the supervision of a licensed landscape architect shall bear the seal when submitted to a client or to a building official for a building permit, even if the practice is exempt from licensure under § 58-53-304.(Utah Code § 58-53-602)
- A landscape architect may only affix the seal to a site plan personally prepared by the licensee; prepared by an employee, subordinate, associate or drafter under the licensee's supervision where the licensee assumes responsibility; or prepared by another licensed or exempt person where the sealing licensee performs a thorough review for compliance with all applicable laws, rules and professional standards and makes any necessary corrections before the final site plan is submitted.(Utah Code § 58-53-603)
Utah landscape architect seal questions
Where does the signature go on a Utah landscape architect's seal?▾
R156-53-601(3) does not merely require a signature — it requires the signature and date to appear across the face of each seal imprint, so a signature placed beside the seal does not satisfy the rule. (Utah Admin. Code R156-53-601(3))
Does an exemption from licensure remove the sealing duty?▾
No. Utah Code § 58-53-602(2) requires the final site plan to bear the landscape architect's seal when submitted to a client or to a building official "even if the practice is exempt from licensure under Section 58-53-304." (Utah Code § 58-53-602(2))